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Originally Posted by vreihen16
I don't know what it is with the entitled millennials who think that work is an extension of the Friends coffee shop, where Internet access is free and they don't need to actually earn a pay check.
There are several industries where EVERY SINGLE THING YOU DO ON A COMPUTER must be logged, archived, and is subject to e-discovery by lawyers on a whim. Being the person who has to fulfill those e-discovery requests for my employer, I BEG my colleagues not to use their work computers for any personal stuff. I can't tell you the personal stuff that I've seen come up in searches, just that everything that matches the requested search filter is turned over.
If you're bored, the entire corporate e-mail archive for Enron is available publicly online to peruse, and used for training in forensic searches.....
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I think some folks have lost perspective on internet usage at work and have come to think of it as the same as drawing a breath of air. I work all over town for a variety of consulting clients and the rules and expectations are different from client to client. Most places are pretty relaxed. Some places have pretty strict firewall rules.
The most draconian place I've ever worked was the Federal Reserve Bank in Minneapolis. Very high security overall, and especially in the sector where I worked. I had signed off on all the rules but one day without thinking about it I plugged my phone charging cord into one of their desktop PC's USB port. I immediately got an urgent email which I can paraphrase as "Unplug that fucking phone right this instant, or we're sending the SWAT team down to light your ass up!"